Interview With "Navalny" Director, Daniel Roher

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"Navalny" had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary and the overall Festival Favorite Award. One couldn't have guessed how a month later, the film would prove to be more timely than ever when Russia waged war on Ukraine. The documentary tells the story of the rise of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny and the plot to assassinate him by the Kremlin. Though Navalny is currently behind bars, the documentary has resonated with all those who have seen it. Director Daniel Roher was kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with us about the impact his film is having on audiences, if he fears for his own safety after making the documentary, what went into capturing that shocking phone call between Navalny and his assassins. We discuss all of this and more in our podcast, which you can listen to down below. The film had its premiere this past Sunday on CNN & will be available on HBO Max starting May 26th. Enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the director for Navalny, Daniel Roher.
0:08.0	Okay, so Alexei, I want to talk about something that we sort of touched on this morning.
0:13.4	And you might hate this, but I really want you to think about it.
0:17.2	If you are killed, if this does happen, what message do you leave behind to the Russian people?
0:32.8	Alexei Navalny has taken on the most dangerous job in the world, challenging the leader of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.
0:40.3	If I want to be a leader of this country,
0:42.3	if I want to fight Putin, I have to organize people.
0:46.3	The Kremlin hates Novalny so much, they refused to say his name.
0:58.0	I was banned from everything and blacklisted.
1:01.0	But as I became more and more famous, I was totally sure that it will be problematic for them to kill me.
1:09.0	And boy, were you wrong?
1:12.6	Yes, I was very wrong.
1:14.6	Alexi Navalny arrives at this hospital in Berlin.
1:31.3	To have your dad an opposition leader being poisoned, it was literally like a book.
1:37.3	Come on, poisoned. Seriously.
1:41.3	They were so shocked. It's like Putin's living a signature on a crime scene. It's kind of stupid.
1:53.0	We found a domestic assassination machine on an industrial scale.
1:57.0	Navalny will personally call these poisoners one-tile one.
2:03.3	Further.
2:04.8	This Navalene, Alexei, he was beckoitte.
2:05.6	I wanted to know,
2:06.4	why you ruined their day.
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